The steps rattle down the wooden stairs from the height of two floors while I set light. The man draws back behind the column – there, you see? – and waits until I click. “Kommen, Madonna!” he says then excitedly. “I speak Russian,” I say, but he already leads me to the courtyard, and shows the Luca della Robbia reminiscence-relief. “How does it come here?” “This our house is very old. Very, very old.”

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Although the house – in via Fedor 8, one step from the main square – must surely have Quattrocento foundations, what you can see is certainly not older than the end of the 19th century, the golden age of Lemberg. However, for a local person to whom access to real history has been forbidden for almost a hundred years, this is certainly very, very old.

I am just collecting mosaics of a Lwów that does not appear in tourist guides – in order to compose a little tourist guide in which they will soon appear (first as an e-book in Spanish, but later also in other languages, inshallah).